Posts Tagged ‘choosing a language’
Mar
Mar
10 Reasons why Spanish is the best first choice of second language!
If you want to learn a foreign language, but you don’t know which one to learn; or if you want to learn several languages and you don’t know which one to start with; or, if you think learning a foreign language is too hard, and you want something that will be easier, the Spanish is definitely the best choice.
Apr
Apr
Language is a means, not an end
As the saying goes, life is a journey, not a destination. What’s important is not where you’re going, but what you do along the way. And the same thing goes for learning a language. There will always be more to learn, you can never know it all.
May
May
How does Italian fit into my goals?
This weekend I decided to improve the direction of this web site just a bit. I’ve updated my About Me and added a Bucket List, both in hopes of explaining my reasons for learning languages and for creating this site. But if you were paying attention, learn Italian isn’t on my Bucket List. So why am I doing it?
Jan
Jan
Why learn Turkish?
Before I get into the details of how I’ll be learning Turkish this year, I want to first take some time to explain why I made this choice. People often have no idea why they should learn a language or which one they should learn. Maybe after seeing my reasons for this choice, perhaps some…
Jan
Jan
Choosing a language that you will use
In spite of the fact that my advice to others has always been to pick a language not for it’s features, or interestingness, or uniqueness, or whatever, but rather to choose a language that you will use…, I failed to follow my own advice with my choice of Turkish last year and that led
Jan
Jan
New language mission for 2012!
As I mentioned in my last post, my first goal in choosing a language this year was that I pick something which I will have many opportunities to use. In that post, I listed out several considerations, and I think it’s important to go through a similar process when choosing a new language project for…